There was no cheering, no celebration.
After the Chuang army was defeated, the atmosphere in Chunhua City was very strange.
Many people have not yet reacted. What happened in just a few hours is like a fairy tale, which is unbelievable.
Hu Zhili finally returned to Chunhua City safely.
At the first moment when the army retreated, Hu Zhili immediately ordered an evacuation to the edge.
And it was this withdrawal that allowed Hu Zhili to bump into two important people-Gao Yigong and Gao Shi.
Gao Yigong was from Mizhi, Shaanxi Province. He had been following Li Zicheng since the uprising and was Li Zicheng's right-hand man.
And Gao also has another identity, that is, she is Li Zicheng's first wife.
When Hu Zhili led a group of cavalry to the edge of the area, he happened to see a group of more than ten people, but the well-dressed cavalry team was leaving the camp and wanted to flee into the mountains and forests.
At that time, Hu Zhili had already guessed that it might be a big fish, so he immediately sent his cavalry to intercept it and quickly captured them all.
However, after being captured, Hu Zhili asked several times, but no one explained his identity.
Until Hu Zhili met Gao Jie and Xing Shi again, who were picked up from the mountain by the sentinels. Gao Jie recognized the identities of Gao Yigong and Gao Shi at a glance.
When Gao Yigong saw Gao Jie, he immediately realized that the fire in the back camp was set by Gao Jie.
He saw Xing next to Gao Jie again, and Gao Yigong still didn't know the reason for this.
If it hadn't been for the tight binding, I'm afraid Gao Jie would have been torn apart by Gao Jie's hands on the spot.
On the other hand, Gao's expression did not change much from being tied up to seeing Gao Jie and Xing, and he remained calm.
Chen Wang was sitting at the head of the tent, looking at Gao Yigong and Gao Shi who were kneeling on the ground, then at Gao Jie and Xing Shi who were sitting on the side, and finally his eyes rested on Hu Zhili.
Chen Wang felt that the situation between him and Li Zicheng should be a real fight to the death. It was not a hatred between officers and soldiers and rebels, but a real personal feud.
Li Zicheng's two current wives, plus Gao Yigong, are now in his hands.
Fortunately for Ms. Xing, after all, she said she was a wife, but in fact she was just a concubine.
But Gao was Li Zicheng's real wife. If the process did not change, when Li Zicheng conquered Beijing and became emperor, Gao would also be made queen.
But obviously, the Gao family does not have this opportunity now.
Let alone whether Li Zicheng can break through Beijing in the future, it will not be easy to pass Liu Chenggong's test.
In the Battle of Xiangle, Liu Chenggong and Ai Wannian joined forces and were ambushed by Li Zicheng. As a result, Liu Chenggong lost his position as deputy general and was made a staff general.
The enemy was extremely jealous when he saw him, and Li Zicheng had to shed his skin to escape even if he didn't die.
"Take them down, lock them in a military camp, and send a banner of soldiers to guard them closely."
Chen Wang raised his hand and ordered.
He had no intention of talking nonsense with Gao Yigong and Gao Shi.
Gao Yigong's face turned red, his eyes were red, and he couldn't ask any questions at all.
As long as the rag blocking his mouth is removed, he is guaranteed to hear the purest national quintessence of this era.
As for Mr. Gao, it is useless to ask. Mr. Gao knows that Mr. Xing also knows, but Mr. Xing knows that Mr. Gao may not know.
Gao did not manage anything too important in Li Zicheng's camp.
The people outside the tent were making noises and neighing, but it still didn't stop.
Although the main battle is over, the normal battle is not yet completely over.
Chen Wang ordered Chen Gong to lead the remaining Liao Town cavalry in pursuit.
Li Zicheng led his elite cavalry to flee south, and a group of defeated troops also bypassed Chunhua and headed southeast.
The noise outside the tent was the sound of reorganization. Chen Wang did not personally lead the troops in pursuit. Now there were many things to deal with inside and outside the city.
Things were divided into priorities. The affairs in Chunhua City were the most important, but Li Zicheng and the defeated soldiers were now the least important.
Li Zicheng was as slippery as a loach, not to mention that there was another obstacle in the way of pursuit.
Even if there were no defeated troops blocking the way, Li Zicheng would probably not be able to catch up.
Historically, Li Zicheng was defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in an ambush at Tongguan Nanyuan in Weinan, and almost his entire army was wiped out.
But even so, Li Zicheng still escaped from birth, but took Liu Zongmin and other 18 remaining members to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi.
The various atmospheres during wartime can easily make people's blood boil and they make some reckless actions.
Now that he was back in the camp, Chen Wang had completely calmed down.
In this situation, whether Li Zicheng escaped or not, he had already achieved enough military exploits, which was enough to make a heavy mark in the hearts of Hong Chengchou and Chongzhen.
What's more, Gao Yigong is also a big fish, and his status is no less than that of a bandit leader.
Using two thousand battalions to defeat hundreds of thousands of rogue bandits in a field battle was an achievement that few people could achieve even in the early years when rogue bandits arose.
With such a great achievement, it is not impossible to become a general in one step.
With Cao Wenzhao's relationship, he could be promoted to a guerrilla, and he could legitimately lead a battalion and officially become a battalion general.
But this is not the biggest gain from this battle.
The biggest gain from this battle was the armor and weapons that the intruders left behind when they fled. These are the most important things at this stage.
"After all the defeated troops outside the city have dispersed, let Tang Guizhong send out all the sergeants under his command, and the auxiliary soldiers recruited in the city are also sent out to clean up the battlefield."
Chen Wang turned his head and ordered to Hu Zhili.
"Remember, don't miss a piece of armor or a piece of weapon."
Going to the battlefield with armor and without armor are really two different things.
Even a cloth armor with less than a hundred iron armor pieces attached can still resist light arrows shot by a riding bow.
Even ordinary swords and guns cannot chop or penetrate.
Chen Wang is now wearing a piece of mail under the fish scale armor, and under the mail there is cotton armor lined with silk, which is a solid three-layer armor.
Even if a strong man came with a spear and stabbed him in the chest, he would never be able to break the defense.
At a distance of thirty or forty steps, even a cannon cannot completely break through the armor.
As a camp soldier, armor and weapons are not very good.
When the guard reaches the Qianhu level, there will be craftsmen in the guard who specialize in making ordnance.
However, the camp system and the guard system are completely different. The camp system is only responsible for combat, and all the money, food, weapons and armor are uniformly allocated by the court for the purpose of restriction.
In the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that it is difficult to achieve success as a soldier in the rebellion.
Even Zuo Liangyu only occupied a place and became a warlord when various systems were corrupted in the late Ming Dynasty.
The difficulties to be overcome during the transition from a battalion soldier to a warlord are one after another.
Zuo Liangyu walked for more than ten years before barely completing the transformation.
Now that Mingting's prestige is still there, many things can only be accumulated slowly.
